Apprehendo, apprehendis, apprehendi, apprehensum, apprehéndere, ex Ad & Prendo, siue Prehendo. Cicer.To take: to attache: to lay haudes on a thing: to get.Apprehendere manu aliquid.Plaut.Apprehendere morsu. Plin. To take holde with the teeth. Sed vt quidque, ego apprehenderam, statim accusator extorquebat èmanibus. Cic.Euery argument that I begun he writhed out of my handes.Apprehendere regionem.Cic.To obtaine gouernannce of. Apprehendere palmam. Plin. To get the victory. Quantum apprehenderint tres digiti, Plin.As muche as three fingers can hold. Apprehendere per contradictionÊ legimus in versu.Stat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ap-prĕhendo (adp-, Fleck., Baiter, Halm; app-, Kayser) (poet. sometimes apprendo: adprendas, Caecil. ap. Gell. 15, 9; apprensus, Tac. A. 4, 8; Stat. S. 3, 4, 43; apprendere, Sil. 13, 653), di, sum, 3, v. a., to lay hold upon, to seize, take hold of (class., esp. in prose; syn.: prehendo, comprehendo, cupio, arripio, corripio). I. In gen. A.Lit.: Alterum alterā adprehendit eos manu, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 64, where Fleck. reads prehendit: Pone (me) apprendit pallio, Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 23: adprehendens pallium suum, Vulg. 3 Reg. 11, 30: atomi aliae alias adprehendentes continuantur, Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 54: adprehendit cornu altaris, Vulg. 3 Reg. 2, 28: vites sic claviculis adminicula tamquam manibus adprehendunt, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 120: morsu, Plin. 11, 24, 28, 84: quantum adprehenderint tres digiti, Quint. 1, 2, 26.—So of seizing hold of the hand, or embracing the person: manum osculandi causā, Suet. Tib. 72 (prehendere manum is found in Cic. Quint. 31, and id. de Or. 1, 56, 240): manum adprehendere, Vulg. Gen. 19, 16; id. Isa. 41, 13; ib. Marc. 1, 31; ib. Act. 3, 7: quibus adprensis, Tac. A. 4, 8 al.: adprehensum deosculatur, Vulg. Prov. 7, 13.—Also in entreaty: conscientiā exter ritus adprehendit Caecilium, etc., Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 8.—B.Trop.1. Of discourse: quidquid ego apprehenderam statim accusator extorquebat e manibus,
whatever I had brought forward
,
alleged
, Cic. Clu. 19, 52: nisi caute adprehenditur,
is laid hold of
,
employed
, Quint. 10, 2, 3.—2.To grasp with the mind, to understand, comprehend: passio apprehensa, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 5, 70; Tert. adv. Val. 11.—3. For complector, to embrace, include: casum testamento, Dig. 28, 2, 10: personam filii (sc. in stipulatione), ib. 45, 1, 56.—II. Esp., to seize, to take, or lay hold of, to apprehend: a militibus adprehensus, Gell. 5, 14, 26: furem adprehendere, Dig. 13, 7, 11: fugitivum, ib. 11, 4, 1.—Hence, A. In milit. lang., to take possession of: adprehendere Hispanias, Cic. Att. 10, 8 init. (cf. Caes. B. C. 3, 112: Pharon prehendit); and in gen. to lay hold of, to get, secure, obtain (eccl. Lat.): adprehende vitam aeternam, Vulg. 1 Tim. 6, 12; 6, 19: justitiam,
righteousness
, ib. Rom. 9, 30.—B. As med. t., of disease, to seize: Ubi libido veniet nauseae eumque adprehendit, decumbat etc., Cato, R. R. 156, 4.—So in gen. of fear, pain, trouble (eccl. Lat.): tremor adprehendit eam, Vulg. Jer. 49, 24: dolor, ib. 2 Macc. 9, 5: angustia, ib. Jer. 50, 43: stupor, ib. Luc. 5, 26: tentatio, ib. 1 Cor. 10, 13.